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Sunday, January 09, 2005
1/09/2005 10:39:00 AM

hey everyone, guess what i'm doing now?....cant guess right?...me just sitting on the couch and typing the blog entry..but actually,me just trying to be lame lar..so sianz...

yesterday night went for fellowship at the church that i most probably am permanently attending for the next six mths...i guess it will be fun..due to the experience i had yesterday..

they dun hav alot of pple lar...maybe like two grps added up in our yf..like 15 pple or so..but they use a piano and intending to use drums and guitar too...guitarist..there's already a girl playing..but she didnt turn up yesterday..so it was only pianist...wow, all the talents are girls wor..i think guys here in Canada are either in bands outside or they are the more sporty type..like bball and skateboarding seems the most "in" thing for them for sports lar...

i went to the church then i think quite a number knew that i'm their to-be drummer...then they were like..lets get the drums down manz..cos the fellowship was in the basement of the church...while service on the first floor...i helped them with the drums...

they were like arranging the drums properly...but i gave them a hand, they were like, cool...drums manz....as if they never touch b4 like that..then they put everything together..i was like "erm...u want me to do a demo?...then where's the sticks?"...they were like stunned and like totally forget that drums need drumsticks de...some still say "use ur hands lar..."....i was like "nayz,u wont get to hear much like that"

then they ran around finding the sticks..but obviously they didnt have a drummer b4..so they dun have it lar...later one of them came back with a...how abt u make a guess?..lol...i was like shocked...they took pencils and pen at first..then i was like..too short lar..no effect one...then they next took one even more shocking thing LONG CHOPSTICKS...i didnt even see chopsticks so long b4...so i was lik laughing at the suggestion of it...but it was the length of drumsticks..but the problem is...i never use chopsticks to play b4 and these were like half the thickness of drumsticks...no effect de...but anyways, since they so sincere in wanting to hear..i tried...i did make one mistake...cos i didnt come with a mindset that i needed to play drums and the main problem is I"M NOT USED TO CHOPSTICKS~!...lol

but i guess they didnt hear it as a mistake..so..who cares?..lol...but it was real stupid holding chopsticks instead of drumsticks..spoil my image of how drums are supposed to be played loh..and when i play..i watch myself using the "sticks"...i couldnt believe i agreed to using these stupid things to play loh..-_-"

nvm..i got to teach like abt three pple the drums..one mastered the basic beat in 5 mins of teaching...actually the fastest "student" i've had...even faster than tommy..and this student is a girl..the guys one gave up trying..while the other was like keep on trying...abt 10 mins then i made him do the real beat..cos i split up the learning...aiya,dunno how to explain..like coordination of hands legs should come later...make sure u are sure of using the three basic things first: snare drum,bass and hi-hat...two by two...if u all learn from me b4 then u will understand..i make u feel the beat first...then i play one time all three things and u feel it..u play it...dun memorise...the guys were trying too much of that..the girl was little of the punk type..but cute, like pris, hang out with guys alot...lol

i guess girls have more patience..abt the discipline factor, i wont judge...i kind of learn by myself de...so its like i took like an hour...cos i was like coaching myself..but totally abt feeling the beat..not memorising and not simplifying the beat into 4 beats...i didnt even know that in pri 4...so its like i coach myself of course harder when everyone around me was saying i'm too young...quite discouraged lar...but i got to learn quite fast after i enter sec one cos always sit behind luther while he play in service to learn...

i guess i'll be in the band soon...but i wont rush into that...as long as i get my self improvement courses...i'm satisfied..getting them soon..hehez..

i got know quite alot of CBCs yesterday..mostly girls..i dunno y its harder to know guys here..cos they like have their 'cool" grps or grps that have some attitude in common..its hard for me to just go in with them..the girls are more independent and dun stay in grps de...but the guys are still friendly lar...CBC= Canadian born Chinese...

went to supper with them and got to know more of them thru conversation and everything..its so nice loh...so many of them talk to me at one time..its hard catching up lar...and abt the age grp..its abt like 15-21 ba...

their yf is like one week activity, one week Bible study...so we get to have quite alot of activities...then on easter..the day itself..we will fast for forty hours at someone's house and stuff...alot of events lar...like bowling,camping,etc de...i guess i'll be fine here...hehez...thought i'm gonna miss alot of yf events in spore..but since i'm here...just be where i can be at the time being loh...but wont get too attached and forget everyone back in spore ya?...promise u all that...;)

time is ticking fast...soon gonna be 20th day...and abt something...saturday that u see on my blog entries...means i wrote it on friday k?...cos i put singapore time for my blog...but my time here is 13hours slower(dunno how many times i repeat that le)...today is the 19th day i'm here...soon i'll be back annoying all of u...so dun need to try to get rid of my stupid face in ur mind..i will appear in ur mind soon,again...hehez

things are happening well for me..no partying yet..but i guess i hope i dun meet friends like that...or else i might get badly influenced...even though i know my limits...the pple i hang out with...will more or less shape my thinking and character de...so i just gotta watch out...dun hang out with singapore smart kids or nerds either lar..lol =X

today went to the mall square one..not really the mall...but we went to the arcade...its called "playdium"...like a small "jurong east shopping mall" with full of games de..hehez..the games are quite equivalent to singapore de lar...other than those 3D ones...oh..talking abt them makes me have the dizzy feeling again...

i went to play this 3D game..i'm a cop and have to shoot pple around me..its like playing in first person mode while totally ur head is covered by..how do i explain that..u know those kind of salon?...then for perm hair...then they will put like a motorbike helmet over ur head...=X..i dunno abt that de hor...its cos small my mum always bring me to salon..then she make her hair..i sit there like an idiot....while pple just come over "so cute" then pinch my face...so annoying...

then i put that on..then have to turn 360 degrees to see my friends de..i thought it will be fun..but i'm the type that can get motion sickness very easily playing games in first person mode....so i kind of gave up halfway..esp when outside the helmet...pple were looking what i'm doing in there...there's a scene...then i just seem so stupid loh...stupid benjamin walked away..or ask him to take over le..i was like going to vomit...

the cute thing abt the arcade here was that small children as young as 5 years old...are walking around alone...like their parents just put them here and shop at square one or something..then they go and slide their cards and play..lol...so cute..=X

the games are all very "singapore also have" lar...but it was like they have "beatmania freaks,DDR freaks,guitar freaks"...but no "percusion freaks"..i mean the game..it was like so sianz..i wanted to play it...cos in spore marcus was like telling me "b4 u go CAnada..u try to master more of the skills then go Canada haolian..."...but come here...cant even play that game...i dun think i will go to that arcade anymore manz...its big but alot of wuliao games..and benjamin and my bro arent those type to crazily play with me...my bro is bu yaolian when he play lar..but age gap lar...wish marcus was here..:(

the games are quite outdated de...DDR..u know the dancing and jumping on the arrows that one...is like only first version wor...i rather singapore arcades...but the daytona was like totally realistic de..as if u r in the car itself...so i didnt bang..or else the seat will shake..lol...i kind of trashed my bro and benjamin and another guy that was playing there...even though i only know how to use automatic lar...the guy that was playing with me...lost to me three games in a row..he smiled to me when i said "gd game" to him after every match...but it didnt seem that way...i think he quite pek chek that i keep winning him..lol..i even made his car fly quite a flew times..hehez

he kept trying lar...but always is second after me de...i said the last "gd game" to him on the third round..he just smile and left...i thought he is supposed to be sociable?..why am i the one that talks to him first manz...and no reply somemore...stupid smile...

we stayed in there for hours..we bought the thirty dollars package..have 180 tokens...but simulators cost at least 3-4 tokens...but ours is in card form...so we just use sliding of card loh....

we also sat a 2 dollars motion simulator ride in one of the small cinemas...but it was boring..its like a cartoon show of virtual reality...the whole theatre kind of shakes together lar...but not much of fun..i prefer the ones in genting...i mean when i went in sec one or something...i wish today's motion simulator was the jurassic park one..the cartoon one was boring...i was like...r u shaking me to sleep?only the music very loud only...deafening manz..if a drummer can tell u thats deafening..u should know how loud that is...

then we ate mcdonalds for dinner..i know why they all fat de...cos u see ar..they have meals that totally very scary de loh..i was hungry so i felt i regretted not buying the bigger burgers..its like u know big mac in singapore?...they have double big macs here...lol...and if u know zinger burger...its like double it too..lol...i bought a meal and an apple pie...its like everything is the same for the meal..but its called "Big extra meal"..but the burger is just a quarter ponder in spore lar...but the apple pie is baked de...quite nice..but i still prefer singapore de...

tml got church..maybe i will see how their service goes..just wanna suan those that go to chinese service back in spore...me having contemporary english service here...i mean contemporary songs..hehez...=P...and english somemore...i will get to relax from translating everything into english for awhile..cos i usually do that until brain tired in singapore...

at least this time when i go...i'll have someone to sit to...the auntie's son is called raymond..he is 17 but driving a car le..and is so mature looking..i cant believe he is only one year older than me...first time i see someone that looks like 20 years old de...but is only one year older than me...he drives me to church and then fellowship me also know almost all of them le...so no problem..other than remembering their names..lol..=X cos its like they only have one more person's name to remember..while i have to know all of theirs...so cham hor...

that was my day today and and yesterday night..short and simple...not as exciting as how it used to be when i just came lar...so dun hav so many stories to tell...cos adapting to life here le...will update again tml..cya pals;) pen off..

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